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Preface Introduction: The geometry of sound 1. Hearing numbers, seeing sounds: the role of instruments and diagrams in Greek harmonic science 2. Mathematical harmonics before the monochord 3. The monochord in context 4. Eratosthenes 5. Canonic theory 6. Ptolemy's canonics Bibliography Index.
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